A Fantasy Romance Trilogy
Rooted in Green
Three books. One living forest. Bonds that refuse to break.
A Fantasy Romance Trilogy
Three books. One living forest. Bonds that refuse to break.
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Deep in the Living Wilds, the forest and its guardians share one root system, one heartbeat, and one slow-healing wound. When blight, tyranny, or a seed that should not exist threatens to unravel it, the ones bound to protect it have to decide how much of themselves they're willing to give the green.
The Trilogy
Book One
The forest is dying from the inside out.
When bandits attack a refugee camp at the river ford, Armon Thorn, Alpha of the Thorn Pride, leaps into the fight and finds Corivel Silverwood already holding the line. The forest guardian’s staff burns green. The pull between them is instant, a resonance neither can explain and neither wants to fight.
But the blight is crawling the root-paths toward the Heartroot, and behind it stands Torack, a guardian twisted by more than a century of exile, with an army of wolves at his command. The only weapon that can stop him, the Seed of the Sun, will answer only to a bonded pair.
Armon and Corivel have weeks to learn whether their bond is strong enough to wield it.
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Book Two
Five years of hard-won peace. A call from the north that cannot be ignored.
Five years of peace end with a single message: humans are under siege beyond the mountain barrier. Armon, Corivel, and their allies take the under-mountain road — past trolls, stone, and a golden dragon who remembers exactly what tyranny costs. On the other side, a tyrant rules by tooth and claw, and a rightful Alpha is ready to risk everything to end it. The alliances forged here will be written in blood and mead. Not everyone marching north is coming home.
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Book Three
A seed rises from scarred earth. Something answers.
At Dawn Pride, four guardians plant a seedling cut from the Heartroot itself — the ancient pair's only child. It soothes broken shifts. It calls to those who carry a rare and dangerous trait. And when two of them get too close, the ground itself starts to warm. Corivel has a secret she's held outside the new marker line, and it won't stay buried much longer. Something older is gathering beneath the green — and it doesn't care about anyone's old stories. Only what it was made to grow.
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I'm looking for a handful of readers willing to read Book One early, share honest reactions, and flag anything that pulled them out of the story. No experience necessary — just a love of fantasy romance and a willingness to tell me the truth.
Thank you — I'll be in touch once Book One is ready for early readers.
Werecat Prides bound to the forest. Wolf Packs holding the river fords. Guardians who carry the Living Wilds in their blood and can heal, or unmake, the ground beneath their feet. Every alliance in this trilogy is built on who's willing to bleed for the green, and who isn't.
Armon & Corivel
Jaxxon Sterling grew up in the southeastern United States and finished his education at a British school in India. He started writing at eighteen — stories about werecats that never left his notebooks — and more than forty years later he still works the same way: the characters arrive first, and he writes down what they're doing and saying. Writing has always been an outlet for him, a place to work things out.
His influences run toward the writers who built the ground he plays on: J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen R. Donaldson, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Robert E. Howard.
He's retired now, and splits his time between keeping bees and looking after a small colony of feral cats — Leo, Sylvia, Mittens Jr., Pumpkin, Snowflake, Tuxedo Sam, Matt, and a few others who've wandered in — alongside his wife, Cherie.
Rooted in Green, a fantasy romance trilogy about found families, hard-won peace, and the cost of protecting what you love, is his debut.
Get word when covers drop, chapters go up for early readers, and the first book goes live.
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